Billionaire Tom Steyer Rules Out Run For Office, Will Spend At Least $30M On Campaign To Flip The House

The Hill reports:

Billionaire Democratic donor and environmentalist Tom Steyer will not run for any political office in 2018, instead outlining plans to sink tens of millions of dollars into an aggressive effort to flip the House majority to the Democrats.

“I’m willing to do whatever it takes to help save our country. And I believe the most important task for me, the task which I feel called to do, is organizing and mobilizing America’s voters,” Steyer said during a Monday morning press conference in Washington, D.C., at an office space overlooking the Capitol.

“I’m not going to run for office in 2018, that’s not where I can make the biggest difference.” He plans to channel at least $30 million toward his advocacy group, NextGen America, in order to build out a massive army meant to boost millennial voter turnout across 10 states.